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NOAH
ALBERT STUMP
Noah
Albert Stump’s standing in the eyes of his community may best be illustrated by
the reception he received when he was introduced as city treasurer at the
Rosemead city council installation ceremonies on the city’s incorporation. Introduced almost last after a long list of
notables including State Senator Richard Richards and nine others, Mr. Stump
drew the loudest cheer of them all. He
came to Rosemead in 1926, having purchased the grocery store and meat market,
together with the residence and one acre of ground at 884 East Mission Drive,
from A. R. Kidd. In 1936 he was
appointed postmaster of Rosemead, at which time the annual receipts were about
ten thousand dollars; on his retirement as postmaster in 1953, the receipts had
grown to one hundred forty-three thousand, evidence of the growth of the
town. Mr. Stump was long-time backer of
cityhood for Rosemead which was finally accomplished in 1959.
Born
on a farm at Selma, Iowa, on November 21, 1883, Noah A. Stump is the son of
Nicholas and Anna (Janette Smith) Stump.
His grandfather, George Stump, was born in Stark County, Ohio, in 1806
and was a surveyor, teacher, farmer, and sawmill owner who moved from Ohio to
Iowa in 1842, and died in 1861; his wife, Mary, was born in 1811 and lived for
twenty-two years after her husband’s death.
After
Noah Stump graduated from grade school in Selma, Iowa, in 1902, he was a clerk
for three years in the A. B. Adams General Store there, graduating from Capitol
City Commercial College in Des Moines in 1906, and becoming assistant
bookkeeper for the Des Moines Daily Capital newspaper. Because of his father’s illness Mr. Stump
returned to Selma as clerk in O. B. Hughes’ general store until 1909. After six years as assistant cashier at the
Eldon, Iowa Savings Bank, Mr. Stump between March, 1916 and May, 1917 organized
the Farmers and Merchants Savings Bank in Eldon, serving as cashier of that
bank until 1925. As there were three banks
in Eldon, population twenty-three hundred, the banking business in 1925 in Iowa
did not look too promising to Mr. Stump.
A proposition was made by the directors of the Farmers and Merchants
Bank and the directors of the First National Bank, that the latter would buy
the assets of the former, but the proposition was turned down by the Farmers
and Merchants Savings Bank stockholders.
Mr. Stump left Iowa for Los Angeles on November 1, 1925.
In
Iowa Mr. Stump had been township clerk of Washington Township in Wapello County
from 1911 to 1916. He was raised to
Master Mason in Eldon, and became Worshipful Master in 1916-1917, now being a
member of the Rosemead Lodge, Number 702.
Past patron of the Order of Eastern Star in Eldon in 1920-1921, Mr.
Stump transferred to Rosemead Chapter, Number 567. In Iowa, also, he was a member of the
Scottish Rite bodies in Des Moines and the Kaaba Temple Shrine in Davenport. A director of the Rosemead Chamber of
Commerce for most of his years in California, Mr. Stump was its president in
1954 and is now a director at large of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of
the San Gabriel Valley. He is a charter
member of the Rosemead Kiwanis Club. He has
been a member of the Rosemead Methodist Church since 1927.
The
former Miss Alice Louise Frasher became Mrs. Stump on
March 19, 1921, in Fairfield, Iowa. She
and her husband have a daughter, Mrs. Robert L. (Janet Louise) Woodbury, born
on March 31, 1922.
Mr.
Stump’s civic work is coupled with his interest in politics. As a hobby he raises
roses and camellias.
Transcribed
by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Historical Volume &
Reference Works Including Alhambra, Monterey Park, Rosemead, San Gabriel &
Temple City, by Robert P. Studer, Pages 402-403,
Historical Publ., Los Angeles, California.
1962.
© 2012 V.
Gerald Iaquinta.
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